🇨🇳❌🇹🇼🇺🇸 — 📰 NBC News: Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China

➡️ Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided, according to three current and former U.S. officials.

➡️ Xi told Biden in a group meeting attended by a dozen American and Chinese officials that China’s preference is to take Taiwan peacefully, not by force, the officials said.

➡️ The Chinese leader also referenced public predictions by U.S. military leaders who say that Xi plans to take Taiwan in 2025 or 2027, telling Biden that they were wrong because he has not set a time frame, according to the two current and one former official briefed on the meeting.

➡️ Chinese officials also asked in advance of the summit that Biden make a public statement after the meeting saying that the United States supports China’s goal of peaceful unification with Taiwan and does not support Taiwanese independence, they said. The White House rejected the Chinese request.

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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 📰 CNBC: China revokes Taiwan tariff concessions, piles on pressure ahead of elections in the island

➡️ China suspended tax concessions on 12 chemical compound imports from Taiwan in retaliation for what Beijing deems to be a violation of a trade agreement, just weeks ahead of key elections in the democratically-run island.

➡️ “Taiwan has unilaterally adopted discriminatory bans, restrictions and other measures on the export of mainland products, violating the provisions of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement,” China’s Finance Ministry said in a statement Thursday.

➡️ The Chinese Commerce Ministry last Friday accused Taiwan of violating World Trade Organization rules and the terms of a 2010 trade accord between both parties, extending its probe into Taiwan’s alleged restrictions on trade with the mainland to Jan. 12, just a day before the island’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

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🇹🇼❌🇨🇳 — 📰 TaiwanPlus News: China's been using sand dredged from the seabed close to Taiwan's seabed to create artificial islands in the South China Sea. New legislation allows Taiwan to seize Chinese dredging vessels operating illegally in its EEZ.

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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 📰 Focus Taiwan: China's suspension of select ECFA tariff reductions 'regrettable': MOEA

➡️ The Chinese government's announcement that it will suspend tariff relief on imports of 12 Taiwanese petrochemical products from Jan. 1 is "regrettable," the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Thursday.

➡️ In a statement, the MOEA slammed the move as the latest example of Beijing "politicizing trade," this time in the run-up to Taiwan's Jan. 13 presidential and legislative elections.

➡️ Taiwan continues to urge that any trade disputes be handled through the World Trade Organization, of which both sides are members, the ministry said.

➡️ The MOEA's comments came after the China's Customs Tariff Commission announced sanctions on 12 petrochemical products, including propylene and paraxylene, which currently enjoy reduced tariffs under the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) the two sides signed in 2010.

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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 📰 Global Times News: China urges the US to implement US leader's promise of not supporting "Taiwan independence," stop playing with the Taiwan question and not harm peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said in response to US' fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act that hypes US military support for the island of Taiwan.

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